Paper bag



(NoModeL) G; W. FISHEL.

PAPER BAG.

Patented Jan. 12, 1892.

IN VE NTOI? A TZORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES WV. FISI-IEL, OF ASPEN, COLORADO.

PAPER BAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 467,088, dated January12, 1892.

Application filed May 20,1891. Serial No. 393,411. (No specimens.)

T0 on whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. FIsHEL, of Aspen, in the county of Pitkinand State of Colorado, have invented a new and Improved Paper Bag, ofwhich the following is a specification, reference being had to theannexed drawings, forming a part thereof, in Which- Figure 1 is adiagram of the sheet from which the bag is made. Fig. 2 is a frontelevation of the bag with the side flaps overlapping upon a string orcord laid transversely across it, and which is thus secured by the flapitself Without the aid of supplemental means, so as to form a permanentattachment of the same. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the complete bag,and Fig.4 shows the bag closed and tied up.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all theviews.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap and easily-fastened bagfor receiving goods of various kinds, such as groceries, dried fruits,vegetables, articles of hardware, and other articles which do not sift.

My invention consists in the construction hereinafter described andclaimed.

In making my improved bag I take a rectangular sheet A of paper or othersuitable material and I fold the sides over upon the body of the sheetupon converging lines a and unite the flaps b by means of paste. Thecorner 0, together with the lower portions of the flaps b, is foldedover the body, and the corner is secured by paste to the overlappingportions of the flaps b. lhe remaining corner d is folded over a stringB and pasted, as shown in Fig. 3, and this corner when folded over onthe line 6 forms a flap for closing the mouth of the bag. After the bagis filled the string B is wound once or twice around the body of the bagand tied, as shown in Fig. 4. It will thus be seen that my improved bagis made with the smallest possible quantity of material and that it maybe readily filled and easily and quickly closed and fastened.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- As an article of manufacture, the bag formed of arectangular paper sheet, two of whose diagonally-opposite corners b bare folded on converging lines and lapped and pasted, the corners 0being folded and pasted upon such lapped portions to form the narrow endof the bag and the extremity of the remaining corner portion beingfolded and pasted upon a string B, laid transversely across it, asshown, and which is thus secured to and forms a permanent attachment ofthe mouth-closing flap, as shown and described.

CHARLES W. FISHEL. Witnesses:

L. T. TEUSOHER,

1 J. W. CAMPBELL.

